Text -- Luke 18:38 (NET)

18:38 So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 18:38

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the blind man learning that Jesus was nearby.

² tn Grk “called out, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

³ sn Jesus was more than a Nazarene to this blind person, who saw quite well that Jesus was Son of David. He understood what Luke 7:22-23 affirms. There was a tradition in Judaism that the Son of David (Solomon) had great powers of healing (Josephus, Ant. 8.2.5 [8.42-49]).

⁴ sn Have mercy on me is a request for healing (cf. 17:13). It is not owed the man. He simply asks for God’s kind grace.